Today I'm proud to welcome our latest TMCnet blogger, Chuck Rutledge who will be sharing his insights and opinions via his new "Now Market It" blog. I've known Chuck for over a decade, and he has always been a fantastic resource...

eBay has let it be known that they are looking to spin off Skype, the Internet phone company by way of public offering. Nearly 4 years after it acquired Skype for $2.6 billion, eBay has come to terms with the fact...

ShoreTel has released the latest version of its Unified Communications software, ShoreTel 9. Among the new features, ShoreTel 9 is targeting mobile and desktop users with enhancements designed to enable them to communicate more effectively-regardless of location-and increase individual productivity. I...

Building on their recent momentum and looking to leverage the best of what the market has to offer, ADTRAN today announced d the ADTRAN Alliance Program, a collaboration between ADTRAN and a number of best-in-breed technology and service providers delivering...

I recently had the opportunity to meet with 8x8's Huw Rees to discuss that company's steps to move their Virtual Office hosted IP PBX solution "upstream" to serve larger organizations in the small to medium sized business range. Well, today the...

I visited with Mitel today, and they showed me several solutions designed to drive productivity, enhance customer service, and simplify network management. Thanks go to Stephen Beamish, vice president of business development and strategic alliances and Danielle McNeil, public relations...

It was only a matter of time. Skype today announced the Skype For SIP beta program, which will enable businesses to receive and manage inbound calls from Skype users on SIP-enabled PBX systems, connecting a company's Web site to the PBX...

If it's Wednesday, it must be San Jose... Or in this case, more specifically, Santa Clara. My colleagues and I just stopped in to see our friends at 8x8, who were gracious enough to spend some time with us on this cloudy...

XConnect will officially certify NetNumber's TITAN (Transactional IP Telephony Addressing and Numbering) server as being XConnect-Ready. In other good news for XConnect CEO Eli Katz, Liverpool has just defeated Real Madrid 4-0. Check out the full story and a brief interview with...

Infonetics Research has released the Q4 2008 edition of its Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers report. And the news is not good. According to Infonetics' Diane Myers, Directing Analyst, Service Provider VoIP and IMS:"The fourth quarter of 2008 confirmed what we...

I was on the road yesterday, a quick jaunt to Chicago for an interview with Tellabs. Rich blogged about it and posted a bunch of images from the trip, including one picture that so eloquently captured my thoughts on how...

For those who have been around the VoIP industry for some time, the name VocalTec is synonymous with the industry's earliest days. VocalTec is a true VoIP pioneer and many even credit them for creating the first commercial products that...

Sipera Systems says it's joined the RSA Secured Partner Program and RSA, The Security Division of EMC, said that it has certified interoperability between the Sipera IPCS UC security product family and the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication solution. The result is...

is a hot topic these days, whether traditional TDM, or more frequently now, VoIP recording. There are many reasons to deploy a call recording solution, be it to improve your business' performance through monitoring and archiving important calls, to...

A somewhat deceiving headline made me sit up and take notice this morning. A news item from In-Stat, titled: Struggling Economy Will Slow the Growth of Voice over IP (VoIP) in US Business Markets drew my attention. A closer look at...

It's been quite a week for news this week, and not just the run of the mill product announcements, customer wins and such. Some rather big things went down this week, and the TMCnet family of bloggers was all over...

On second thought, we will NOT be doing away with voice over copper in seven years. We like VoIP, but we love copper. Clearly our executive was not supposed to say what he said to that Bloomberg reporter. Either that or the...

In an item today from Bloomberg News, via the LA Times, Verizon's Chief Marketing Officer John Stratton reportedly said at CES, that the operator plans to do away with placing voice calls over copper lines within a seven-year timeframe. So let...

Out in the woodsOr in the cityIt's all the same to meWhen I'm drivin' free, the world's my home...When I'm mobile... Ok, I admit it. Sometimes I can't help myself. I reach for the most clichéd classic rock lyrics when...

TMCnet and INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine are looking for customer case studies. If you are a provider of IP communications products or services, and you want to show the world how your solutions are helping your customers save money, increase productivity...

As the year comes to a close, it's time again to feature that publishing staple -- the year end interview. I'm fortunate enough to work in an industry where people not only have a lot of interesting things to say, they're...

A new research report from Infonetics tells us something that many of us have felt coming for some time. According to the report Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers carriers are not likely to engage in VoIP equipment purchases...

Just got word that Sherbrooke, Quebec-based Mediatrix has released its latest gateway, the Mediatrix 4102. The latest in the company's line of VoIP gateway products, the 4102 is designed to offer better performance for the growing SOHO and remote office markets. The...

Earlier this week, Texas Instruments introduced their latest IP phone development platform that's designed to allow IP phone manufacturers to create solutions that will offer a truly feature rich experience to end users. I was fortunate to meet TI's Kim Devlin-Allen...